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Which of the following helps explain how a rainbow of colors can form when sunlight passes through a prism?

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As the white light moves through the two faces of the prism, the different colors bend different amounts and in doing so spread out into a rainbow. In a rainbow, raindrops in the air act as tiny prisms. Light enters the raindrop, reflects off of the side of the drop and exits.

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Answer: Sunlight is made up of a mixture of different colors.

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